Now consider, loving hearts (Rolli, set by (Georg Friedrich Händel)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Or pensate, amanti cori

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Or pensate, amanti cori,  
che le gioie più soavi
quelle son de' primi amori
sul bel fiore dell'età.

Ai momenti dilettosi
sieguon poi le cure gravi,
e i contenti de' riposi
sono gioie d'amistà.

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by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Or pensate, amanti cori", HWV 42 (1741), first performed 1741 [ violins, soprano voice, and continuo ], from opera Deidamia, no. 32 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Now consider, loving hearts", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2018-05-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 34

Now consider, loving hearts

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Now consider, loving hearts,
that the sweetest of joys
are those of first love,
which come in the flowering of age.

Following these delightful moments,
grave cares then proceed apace,
and one finds content and repose
merely in the joys of friendship.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687 - 1765)

This text was added to the website: 2019-11-18
Line count: 8
Word count: 42